Former undisputed ONE strawweight kickboxing world champion Jonathan Di Bella of Canada and Italy is headed to 'the land of ...

Some people use karate to refer to any kind of martial art, but it’s really a specific style originating in Japan. Karate uses mostly kicks, blocks and both open and closed hand strikes.

But some key figures introduced the martial art to the mainland in ... became one of the leading styles of karate, and he started teaching in western Japan. Karate quickly became a very popular ...

“I found that a karate dojo constituted a male-dominated community, though,” Oshiro said, looking back when she started learning the martial art when she was 28. “I often heard others remark ...